Tim Menzies, NC State, USA Abhik Roychoudhury, NUS, Singapore

1. Welcome to NIER’15
(new ideas and emerging results)
Tim Menzies, NC State, USA
Abhik Roychoudhury, NUS, Singapore

2. Reflections (on the past)
– New results that question established
past research directions;
– Bold arguments on current research
directions that may be somehow misguided;
– Results that disregard established results
or beliefs of evidence that
call for fundamentally new directions.
Initiatives (recently funded new ideas):
– Summaries of new awards, highly innovative,
large multi-year research grants.
Visions (of the future):
– Bold visions of new directions which may not yet be
supported by solid results but rather by a strong and well
motivated scientific intuition
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3. 100s of authors, from
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4. Reviewing: inputs, outputs
• 135 submissions
– 2 desk rejects
• All papers received three to
four reviews
– Reviewers asked to be v. critical
– “good” was not good enough
– We sought “inspirational”
• Acceptances : 25
– 19% acceptance rates
– 12 long presentations
– 13 short presentations.
• All acceptances:
– 4 pages in the
proceedings
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5. Our hard working review committee:
Mathieu Acher Nelly Bencomo Marcel Böhme
Margaret Burnett Vittorio Cortellessa Bradley Cossette
Eduardo de Almeida Serge Demeyer Danny Dig
Alexander Egyed Franck Fleurey Xavier Franch Smita
Ghaisas Sudipto Ghosh Mike Godfrey Sol Greenspan
William G.J. Halfond Ross Jeffery Xiaoping Jia Aditya
Kanade Jacques Klein Philippe Kruchten Shuvendu
Lahiri Claire Le Goues Seok-Won Lee Patricia Machado
Hausi A. Muller Nan Niu James Noble Liliana Pasquale
Anna Perini Martin Pinzger Raghu Reddy Roshanak
Roshandel Subhajit Roy Houari Sahraoui Santonu
Sarkar Forrest Shull Padmanabhuni Srinivas Jun Sun
Tetsuo Tamai Sira Vegas Lu Zhang Jian Zhang
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6. Our papers:
http://conferences.computer.org/icse/2015,
vol 2
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7. Our Best Paper
• Premkumar Devanbu.
– New Initiative:
The Naturalness of Software
Actual photo from
Dr. Devanbu’s
web site….
…. go figure
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8. Poster session
Thursday 4pm
• Passi Perduti
– behind building opposite
• Come along
– talk in detail about our papers
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